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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Denis Campbell and Emily Dugan

Cancer and maternity patients at risk if junior doctors strike in January, NHS bosses warn

Junior doctors on strike outside University College hospital holding placards
Junior doctors on strike outside University College hospital. Their proposed six-day strike in January will be the longest in NHS history. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press/Rex/Shutterstock

Patients have been harmed as a result of doctors striking this year, and others needing time-critical treatment will be at risk during next month’s walkout in England, hospital bosses have said.

Cancer patients and women having induced or caesarean section births will be in danger of damage to their health unless junior doctors in those areas of care abandon their plans to strike for six days in January, they said.

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